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Date: 12/01/2008
Birds perched on my bike basket to escape the pending downpour of rain
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Date: 12/01/2008
Christopher and Caroline attend this year's Manit Day (Marshallese Culture Day) celebration and try out some coconut milk.
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Date: 12/01/2008
How to break open a coconut...and you thought I was kidding. I can hear the Gilligan's Island jokes coming....
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Date: 12/01/2008
Palm weavers...you'd be amazed what they make with palm fronds....baskets, tiaras, mobiles
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Date: 12/01/2008
Yes, we have emergency vehicles here....no fire-cycles or ambu-peds. :)
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Date: 12/01/2008
Brother silliness....apparently 6 years does not make a difference when boy energy combines forces.
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Date: 12/01/2008
Perhaps the most bizarre Kwaj tradition....the "shaving cream social," which has a long history and is meant to help kids get the "pranks" out of their system to avoid Mischief Night right before Oct 31.
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Date: 12/01/2008
Christopher and his "solar car," which one would assume would work well in a place so close to the equator, but even my two geeky scientists in the house could not get it going. Batteries were more successful. It is a favorite thing to do on a sunny day, however.
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Date: 12/01/2008
Prepping "kruschiki" (Polish love knot cookies) for the 3rd grade international potluck at school...the same one that ended up in 20 people (out of 100 attendees) vomiting 36 hours later. It wasn't our cookies! They were deep-fried! :)
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Date: 12/01/2008
Another Kwaj favorite...the Bike Rodeo, run by the Kwajalein Police Department. We even got t-shirts for participating!
